A boy finds he knows magic, and his parents start acting strangely and finally send him off with his uncle to travel selling goods. On the trip the boy learns that he’s a Mage, his uncle’s a Mage, and his parents are Mages too; he also learns that he’s being hunted. He finds himself kidnapped and having to use magic to go anywhere and even creates his own familiar, who saves the boy multiple times. Back in his home town he finds that his parents are gone, and his grandparents die protecting him before he’s kidnapped again.